Lexicographical Neighbors of Harquebusiers
Literary usage of Harquebusiers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The true history of Church of Scotland, from the beginning of the by David Calderwood (1843)
"When the great ordinance were shott, the regent's harquebusiers went, and skirmished
... Her harquebusiers were drivin backe. So, upon the other side, ..."
2. The History of the Kirk of Scotland by David Calderwood (1843)
"In the meane time, the queen's avant-guarde marching through a strait lane, were
much annoyed by the regent's harquebusiers. The regent's avant-guarde made ..."
3. A History of the Dress of the British Soldier: From the Earliest Period to by John Luard (1852)
"After the main body follows a detachment of harquebusiers, then a larger one,
flanked by archers, and followed by another party of ..."
4. Diversions of a country gentleman by George Brisbane Douglas (1902)
"Accompanied by his own men-at-arms and the remaining harquebusiers, the General
descended into the plain, advanced, and set about calmly and deliberately ..."
5. The Battle of Langside MDLXVIII by Alexander Malcolm Scott (1885)
"In time of shooting the great ordi- ' nance, forty of the Regent's harquebusiers
went and skirmished ' before the Queen's avant guard and killed three or ..."
6. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English by Richard Hakluyt (1903)
"3. and before them [I. 317-] there went 5000 harquebusiers, which went by 5 and
5 in a rank in very good order, every of them carying his gun upon his left ..."
7. Report on the Manuscripts of the Earl of Ancaster, Preserved at Grimsthorpe by Peregrine Bertie Willoughby de Eresby, Sophia Crawford Lomas (1907)
"As to the cavalry, if, over and above the two hundred lancers, there remains a
considerable number of mounted harquebusiers, they could be put under someone ..."
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